Word: thoughtful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...President Speaks. Bursting with self-confidence, the President said that he thought the proposed cloture rule should be even more drastic than the one Russell Long & Co. were talking down. He said he would favor applying cloture by a simple majority vote. Under such a rule, 25 Senators (a simple majority of a functioning quorum of 49) would be able to end a Senate debate...
After intermission, Alfred Howard and Robert Matson joined the pianists in Bartok's Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion. It was clearly the big attraction of the evening; in fact, I thought Sanders Theater would fall in a heap from the applause when it was over. Just how much of the work's impact comes from powerful writing and how much from the force of the medium is hard to tell on first hearing. It seemed to me that much of the percussion part was only reinforcement, especially in the first movement. The two elements have a clearer relation...
...staff, moved English A itself steadily in the direction of General Education. Particularly in the second half year, after trying in the first half year to lay down some fundamentals of composition, we have tried to teach writing in relation to the study of texts which we thought worth close discussion in the classroom. Theodore Morrison, Director of English...
...Wickford Point, which he finished next, he drew on Newburyport detail, conventionally disguised, for "a story on the various relationships of a family." Some of Marquand's own family thought he drew too close. His cousins the Hales, and Renee Oakman Bradbury decided that they had been drawn to the life, that Wickford Point itself was the old family estate of Curzon Mill. Spurred in part by a sense of having served as Marquand's models, the cousins have so far successfully blocked Marquand in a project on which he has his heart set: purchase of the whole...
...since it made no provision for the withdrawal of troops nor for favorable settlement of the two-year argument over recognition. But it is not too much to expect that the Dutch will concede even more in the near future. The Republic is clearly not the "ghost" they thought it to be, but expensively alive. Nations vitally concerned in Asia, particularly England and the U.S., will undoubtedly apply even more severe pressure on the Netherlands to save the situation in Indonesia while their is still time...